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(b) Gra luation of the Pensions.
20. The need of further graduation has been already referred to. It may be useful to note here that at present Colonial Governors draw the following salaries :
17 draw £5,000 and over.
1 draws £3,500
5 draw £3,000
1 draws £2,750
3
21
£4,000
1
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£2,600
2 draw £2,500
1 draws £1,800
2
£2,000
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1
£1,500
1
"3
£1,200
1
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£1,000
1
£800
and of officers administering the Government of
Protectorates :—
1 draws £3,000
2 draw £2,000
3
£1,500
If the scale were extended in the same ratio,
the effect would be that a salary of—
£4,500 would earn a pension of £950
£4,000
£3,500
£3,000
+
21
"
19
13
£900
£850
£800
£2,000 would earn a pension of, say £650 £1,500
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(c) Service Qualifying for Pension.
£550
21. The periods of 18 and 12 years' service as & Governor qualifying for the full or reduced rate of pension would seen to have been fixed on the basis of the completion of three or two terms of office; but it rarely happens that on completing three or two terms an officer is qualified for a Governor's pension, as the time spent on leave and on passages usually exceeds the time allowed, viz., one-sixth of resident service in healthy and one-fourth in unhealthy climates. Moreover, Governors are frequently transferred by way of promotion before the end of a terin. An addition to the reduced rate is allowed under the Act of 1872 to Governors with service between 12 and 18 years, but only on condition that they are 60 years of age at the time of retirement. Nothing is allowed for be- tween 12 and 15 years and further graduation is This restriction as to age presses necessary. severely on those who have almost completed three full terms but are not given a further Government.
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22. It is also specially hard on those who have been in the permanent Civil Service of a Colony where the retiring age is 55. Assuming that a man has qualified for a Civil Service pension of £250 from such a Colony, he may, if he completes 18 years' service as a Governor, of which four must be in a second-class Govern- ment, draw at the age of 60 the full rate of Governor's pension (£750 per annum) plus his Civil Service pension of £250, or £1,000 alto- gether. But, if he retires before 60 after 17 years' service, his Colonial service has to be taken into account in reckoning his Governor's pension, and he receives at 60 only the full rate of Governor's pension, £750. He is thus in the same position as if he had had only 10 years' pensionable administration. On the other hand, if there were no restriction as to age, he would draw a reduced pension of £500 plus nine-fortieths of £750=£168 15s.; and he would also draw his Colonial pension of £250, making £918 15s. in all.
See the case of Sir W. MacGregor, whose retirement now instead of next year would have involved the loss of the amount of his Colonial pensions.
23. In the case of mixed service (ie., service in a permanent Civil Service followed by service as a Governor) the number of years required to qualify for the full rate of Governor's pension is 25, of which 10 must be pensionable administra- tion, and for the reduced rate 20, of which eight must be pensionable administration.
In this case, when the Governor is 60 years at the time of retirement, the Act of 1872 allows an addition to the reduced rate if he has had service of between 22 and 24 years (including 8 years' pensionable administration), but no pro- vision is made to meet the case of those who have had 9 years' administration or more than 24 years' mixed service. See the case of Sir Augu-tus Hemming, who after 44 years' service received no more than if he had served only 24 years. Another step in the Table seems to be needed, giving an increase for an additional year's ad- ministration beyond 8 and a total of not less than 21 years' combined service or for additional years beyond 24, including 8 years' pensionable administration.
(d) Pensionable Age.
24. The fixing of the pensionable age for Governors' pensions at 60, while the age for Civil Service pensions in many Colonies is 55 and in some 50, has given rise to much difficulty. A Governor retiring (except on account of ill health) before 60 not only cannot draw a Governor's pension until he reaches that age, but forfeits any addition which he have
may
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